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This reader is designed to promote a sociological understanding of families, while at the same time demonstrating the diversity and complexity of contemporary family life. The different parts or sections of the reader are designed to "map" onto most sociology of the family textbooks and course syllabi.

Preface

viii

Introduction

1

(6)

Defining Family

7

(30)

The Family: Its Structure and Functions

13

(9)

Rose Laub Coser

The Standard North American Family as an Ideological Code

22

(9)

Dorothy Smith

The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family

31

(6)

Paul Cantor

Sex and Romance

37

(44)

Jealousy and Sexual Property: An Illustration

45

(8)

Kingsley Davis

An All Consuming Love

53

(9)

Eva Illouz

Gender and Courtship Entitlement: Responses to Personal Ads

62

(11)

Erich Goode

Teenage Sexuality

73

(8)

Pepper Schwartz

Virginia Rutter

Marriage and Cohabitation

81

(46)

Marriage

89

(5)

Harriet Martineau

Cohabitation in the United States

94

(10)

Pamela Smock

The Future of Marriage

104

(13)

Stephanie Coontz

Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

117

(10)

Angela Bolte

Reproduction, Birth, and Babies

127

(40)

Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children

133

(7)

Leta Hollingworth

Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood

140

(12)

John Gillis

Parental Consciousness and Gender

152

(10)

Susan Walzer

Daddy Plants a Seed: Personhood Under Patriarchy

162

(5)

Barbara Katz Rothman

Childhood Socialization

167

(32)

Sex and Temperament

173

(7)

Margaret Mead

Childhood

180

(9)

Betty Farrell

Boys and Men in Families

189

(10)

Michele Adams

Scott Coltrane

Motherhood

199

(36)

Motherhood

209

(3)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo

212

(12)

Bonnie Thorton Dill

The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood

224

(11)

Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo

Ernestine Avila

Fatherhood

235

(36)

The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall

243

(9)

Jessie Bernard

Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives

252

(9)

Nicholas Townsend

A Christian Quest for Manhood

261

(10)

Susan Faludi

Families and Work

271

(38)

The Effects of Social Class on Parental Values

281

(9)

Melvin Kohn

Families on the Fault Line

290

(7)

Lillian Rubin

Equality Works

297

(6)

Francine Deutsch

The Political Economy of Constructing Family

303

(6)

Christopher Carrington

Divorce

309

(34)

Early Essays on Marriage and Divorce

317

(4)

John Stuart Mill

Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce

321

(12)

Karla Hackstaff

How Marriages End

333

(10)

Demie Kurz

Diversity in Family Forms

343

(48)

Remarriage

349

(6)

Jessie Bernard

Research on Stepparenting Families

355

(10)

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Single Parent Families

365

(12)

Stephen D. Sugarman

Adoptive Families in the United States

377

(14)

Christine Ward Gailey

Family Violence

391

(32)

The Man-Made Family

399

(3)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Basic Facts about Battering: Myths vs. Realities

402

(12)

Neil Jacobson

John Gottman

Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment

414

(9)

Murray Straus

Families over the Life Course

423

(36)

The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict

429

(9)

Kingsley Davis

``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants